Shillong, Jan 18: The Election Standing Committee (ESC) of East garo hills district on Friday fixed the rates for different items that will be used by the candidates during election campaigns.
The ESC of East garo Hills was headed by the chairman Vijay kumar Mantri.
It was learnt that the decision to fixed the rates was done after the ESC members agreed to the suggestions made by its Chairman besides he also informed that members of the recognised national and regional political parties are its members.
Besides, it was also informed that district secretaries of the various political parties such as Congress, UDP and BJP also attended the meeting.
It was also mentioned that the rates of items that will be used by the candidates such as PA System, food for volunteers are as per the guidelines of the Election Commission of India (ECI) – so that calculating the expenditure of the candidates will be easy.
Mantri said that the rates have been approved after discussing with the representatives of all the political parties who attended the meeting. According to him, these rates will be part of the expenditure of Rs 8 lakhs fixed for each candidate by the ECI.
During the meeting three presentations were also made on different aspects of the election guidelines issued by the ECI. The presentation for election expenditure was made by additional deputy commissioner (election) SB Marak, the presentation for the moral code of conduct was made by Kharkutta Returning Officer MK Marak and the presentation on nomination was made Rongjeng Returning Officer Bhupesh Hajong.
The West Garo hills district election department also undertook exercise to remove all the Christmas and New Year banners put up by different political personalities in the district as leaving them would amount to violation of the election code of conduct.
